how many DC-area white native-born americans you know recently married other white americans?

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[Post New]07/31/2009 16:38
Anonymous
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zumbamama wrote:
I don't think it's an issue, just more of an observance that interracial relationships are growing more common. Why is it shameful to notice that or talk about it? No one is condemning it.

i never said it's shameful to notice it.
read again and pay attention: i said that it's shameful to only notice it 144 years after the war is over.
isn't it cool having a philippine mom teaching latin rhythms? i love mixtures and it makes me sick to my stomach the fact that i can't just go to any church in this country because of the color of my skin, even after over a century after the end of slavery... where is this so famous freedom?


Actually....the Civil War has nothing to do with it. Slavery and interracial marriage are completely seperate issues. In case you didn't know, interracial marriage was ILLEGAL in this country until the late 1960s.


where did this come from?


anti-miscegenation laws and Virginia v. Loving.


do you have a link or i can just google it?
that's news to me...
[Post New]07/31/2009 16:40
Anonymous
Google, wiki, whatever. I really have no substantive comment to this thread, I just thought the civil war comment was a bit snarky and thought I would point out that the Civil War ref wasn't appropriate. My DC friends are all still single, so we'll see....
[Post New]07/31/2009 16:46
zumbamama
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I think it was only allowed in a few states before the late 60s. My parents told me they wouldn't have been allowed to marry had they met in the 60s.

To the poster who feels doesn't feel welcome to her church...maybe look for a smaller, diverse church? Volunteer for an activity there so you can meet people. There are so many more churches to choose from.
[Post New]07/31/2009 17:15
Anonymous
zumbamama wrote:I think it was only allowed in a few states before the late 60s. My parents told me they wouldn't have been allowed to marry had they met in the 60s.

To the poster who feels doesn't feel welcome to her church...maybe look for a smaller, diverse church? Volunteer for an activity there so you can meet people. There are so many more churches to choose from.


thanks for the suggestion. i have no problem finding places where i am welcome. the problem is that i can't believe that there is still people here in this area, where we assume mostly are educated, that still care about the color of someone's skin.
[Post New]07/31/2009 18:40
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
zumbamama wrote:
I don't think it's an issue, just more of an observance that interracial relationships are growing more common. Why is it shameful to notice that or talk about it? No one is condemning it.

i never said it's shameful to notice it.
read again and pay attention: i said that it's shameful to only notice it 144 years after the war is over.
isn't it cool having a philippine mom teaching latin rhythms? i love mixtures and it makes me sick to my stomach the fact that i can't just go to any church in this country because of the color of my skin, even after over a century after the end of slavery... where is this so famous freedom?


Actually....the Civil War has nothing to do with it. Slavery and interracial marriage are completely seperate issues. In case you didn't know, interracial marriage was ILLEGAL in this country until the late 1960s.


where did this come from?


anti-miscegenation laws and Virginia v. Loving.


do you have a link or i can just google it?
that's news to me...


There was also a movie (miniseries I think actually) that was on Lifetime about it.
[Post New]07/31/2009 20:31
Anonymous
The court case being discussed is Loving v Virginia, a landmark US Supreme Court decision essentially stating that the protections in the US constitution override a state's right to have discriminatory laws such as laws banning interracial marriage. As we have seen in gay marriage legislation, states can and do pass their own laws on a variety of rights issues, and the Loving v Virginia decision essentially told states that a Federal civil rights protection overrides "states rights" in the case of interracial marriage. (Recall that the South also claimed slavery was a "States Rights" issue?) Just as DC, Vermont, California and Masschusetts (and other states) have each recognized gay marriage, at the time of the Loving decision, there were many states that had already recognized interracial marriage--the Commonwealth of Virginia just wasn't one of them. It's thus not entirely accurate that inter-racial marriage "wasn't legal" in the US until after the Supreme Court ruling. However, it is true that the Commonwealth clung to its ban on interracial marriage so tightly that it was willing to take the fight to preserve the ban all the way to the Supreme Court.

It may sound petty, but when I moved to the DC area, I never even considered residing in VA because that ugly part of Commonwealth history--that was so divisive and that took place just before I was born. FWIW, I also will never visit or otherwise spend money at the Greenbrier Resort, which, despite being a fancy place, lent part of its facilities for use as an internment camp for Asian American (US citizens!) during WWII. So maybe I'm just really PC and uptight (just like my FIL says!)
[Post New]07/31/2009 21:07
Anonymous
Read even more about it here:

www.lovingday.org

It's inspiring what some will do for love. I think one of the Lovings - maybe the wife - passed away maybe two years ago? I first learned about the case from the obit in WaPo.
[Post New]08/01/2009 01:36
Anonymous
I don't even GET this question (from the OP, I mean). How many married couples do we know in the DC area where both spouses are white people born in the US? I mean, there are tons of those, right? I'm in one; I could name dozens of my acquaintance. Is the OP trying to make some kind of [creepy?] point I'm not grasping?
[Post New]08/01/2009 11:35
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:I don't even GET this question (from the OP, I mean). How many married couples do we know in the DC area where both spouses are white people born in the US? I mean, there are tons of those, right? I'm in one; I could name dozens of my acquaintance. Is the OP trying to make some kind of [creepy?] point I'm not grasping?


the operative word is 'recently'. three people i know from work (in DC) got married in the last 4 or 5 weeks: a white guy married a Thai girl; a white girl married a Lebanese man; and another girl married a 'Persian' man (is that 'Iranian'?). wouldn't that make you curious if this is a prevailing trend in this area?

this thread has taken an unexpected turn.

[Post New]08/01/2009 12:30
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:I don't even GET this question (from the OP, I mean). How many married couples do we know in the DC area where both spouses are white people born in the US? I mean, there are tons of those, right? I'm in one; I could name dozens of my acquaintance. Is the OP trying to make some kind of [creepy?] point I'm not grasping?


And what does OP mean by white? Anglo-Saxon? Are you including others such as the Jews, East Europeans, Russians and Italians? Even "whites" are pretty diverse groups.

[Post New]08/01/2009 16:42
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:the operative word is 'recently'. three people i know from work (in DC) got married in the last 4 or 5 weeks: a white guy married a Thai girl; a white girl married a Lebanese man; and another girl married a 'Persian' man (is that 'Iranian'?). wouldn't that make you curious if this is a prevailing trend in this area?


Are you the OP?

That sounds more like an interesting coincidence to me than a sign of a region-wide trend.
[Post New]08/01/2009 20:01
Anonymous
One day, hundreds of years from now, or maybe thousands, we'll all be the same color.
[Post New]08/01/2009 20:12
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:One day, hundreds of years from now, or maybe thousands, we'll all be the same color.


and look Filipino.
[Post New]08/01/2009 21:56
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:One day, hundreds of years from now, or maybe thousands, we'll all be the same color.


and look Filipino.


haha. I think South Park did an episode about people from the future. All mixed.
[Post New]08/02/2009 10:08
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:One day, hundreds of years from now, or maybe thousands, we'll all be the same color.


and look Filipino.


like these?

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